HP83250 Interface Card

[George]

Does anyone know where I can find information on getting a Hewlett
Packard HP82350 interface card to work with LabView? I was hoping on
finding some instructions as to what software installations were going
to be needed Like NI-Visa, HP SICL ect...

Thanks everyone,
George

[Rob Cole]

Load the HP drivers and I/O Library for the card. This will load HP-VISA. Then run the IO libraries utility (you should see the IO icon in the bottom right of the windows menu bar) and configure the card. You will not be able to load NI-VISA and keep the card working.

Now, without NI-VISA, you will not be able to use VISA to talk to the serial ports and MAX will not see any instruments or interfaces. And you access devices on the GPIB using "standard" VISA references (eg. GPIB0::19::INSTR) for names. The serial ports are now accessed using the "old" serial port drivers.

We have these cards in some of our computers here and some computers have NI cards. Using the above naming format works on all the computers without changing the program.

Have fun. It's a
nice, robust card, but a little harder to program than the NI cards.

Rob

[George]

Hi Rob,
I will give this method a try. I've read on the net that MAX version
2.2 will be able to see the HP83250 under the interface option and any
equipment detected. Have you heard this too?

Thank you,
George-


Rob Cole wrote in message news:<506500000005000000815D0000-1012609683000@exchange.ni.com>...
> Load the HP drivers and I/O Library for the card. This will load
> HP-VISA. Then run the IO libraries utility (you should see the IO icon
> in the bottom right of the windows menu bar) and configure the card.
> You will not be able to load NI-VISA and keep the card working.
>
> Now, without NI-VISA, you will not be able to use VISA to talk to the
> serial ports and MAX will not see any instruments or interfaces. And
> you access devices on t
he GPIB using "standard" VISA references (eg.
> GPIB0::19::INSTR) for names. The serial ports are now accessed using
> the "old" serial port drivers.
>
> We have these cards in some of our computers here and some computers
> have NI cards. Using the above naming format works on all the
> computers without changing the program.
>
> Have fun. It's a nice, robust card, but a little harder to program
> than the NI cards.
>
> Rob

[Anonymous]

Try NI-VISA 2.5 or later. It supports Agilent GPIB cards.


"George" wrote in message
news:3c5dbd5b.11523139@nntp.we.mediaone.net...
> Does anyone know where I can find information on getting a Hewlett
> Packard HP82350 interface card to work with LabView? I was hoping on
> finding some instructions as to what software installations were going
> to be needed Like NI-Visa, HP SICL ect...
>
> Thanks everyone,
> George
>

[Rob Cole]

NI-VISA 2.5 and later only support the older HPIB cards. It is supposed to support the cards, but with twice a day support (for 6 days) from both Agilent and NI, the best that we could get was what was in my original reply. I was told that it may work on some operating systems, but not all versions of windoze. We run mostly NT here, and NI-VISA just didn't work.

Rob

[Anonymous]

I have been using an Agilent 83250 for over a year with NI-VISA 2.52
on my Win2k. The board is still working today...
makoto

"Rob Cole" wrote in message
news:506500000005000000D05D0000-1012609683000@exchange.ni.com...
> NI-VISA 2.5 and later only support the older HPIB cards. It is
> supposed to support the cards, but with twice a day support (for 6
> days) from both Agilent and NI, the best that we could get was what
> was in my original reply. I was told that it may work on some
> operating systems, but not all versions of windoze. We run mostly NT
> here, and NI-VISA just didn't work.
>
> Rob

[Rob Cole]

We have been unable to get NI-VISA 2.6 to recognize this card on any of our WIN NT machines. Yes, we tried "tulip" and all the other drivers. At least we got VISA to work, but no MAX. I don't know if this is from using NT, but this method works with NI, HP, CEC and ComputerBoards GPIB cards.

Rob

[Tims]

Hi George,

Install the HP SICL drivers only.
Manually detect the HPIB card, not the serial ports.

Upgrade to NI VISA 2.6. (2.5 works but with 2.6 you can see the devices
connected to HPIB card).
In MAX under 'Tools/NI VISA/VISA Options', in the menu, go to the
passports tab, check NIVISATulip.dll.
Restart MAX.

You should now see under 'Devices and Interfaces' a question mark icon
with misc' VISA Resource and under that you should see all of your GPIB
equipment.

This works, I have this card running in 3 PC's

Tim

George wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can find information on getting a Hewlett
> Packard HP82350 interface card to work with LabView? I was hoping on
> finding some instructions as to what software installations were going
> to be nee
ded Like NI-Visa, HP SICL ect...
>
> Thanks everyone,
> George

[Robert Giezendanner-Thoben]

HI Tim,

I installed The HP SICL drivers, using the Agilent I/O library control Vers. K.01.00.00

I upgraded to NI VISA 2.6, enabled NIVISATulip.dll and Restarted MAX.

Impossible to see the GPIB Card ?!?
I installed MAX 2.1.3.14
should I upgrade to MAX 2.2?
can you help me?

Thanks
Robert